Triumphantly countering the racist, homophobic chumps who burned records during the Disco Sucks movement in the US in the late-70s, disco has continued to thrive in the past four decades. The frequently bombastic, sometimes camp […]
Puscifer have released remixes of “Bullet Train to Iowa” and ”The Underwhelming” by A Perfect Circle members Billy Howerdel and James Iha, respectively. Maynard James Keenan’s APC bandmates put their sonic fingerprints on the Existential Reckoning […]
Photo by Sidewalkkilla. “Don’t Break My Soul,” Beyoncé’s latest track, a house music revival that features Big Freedia, the legendary queer Black icon known for popularizing New Orleans bounce, has the internet aflame. In fact, […]
Image Source: Getty / Monica Morgan / Larry Busacca Beyoncé’s first single from forthcoming album “Renaissance,” entitled “Break My Soul” and featuring Big Freedia, also features a sample of Robin S.’s house hit “Show Me […]
Everyone wants a sip of Kylie Minogue. This could be because of the recent U.S. launch of her wine company—the reason she left her native Australia to grace our shores this month—which she celebrated with […]
We wouldn’t be surprised if Ben Klock broke a sweat performing his latest club gig at the London’s legendary fabric. It was no mere ordinary club outing for the seasoned DJ and techno producer. Creating a challenge […]
In a milestone for the nascent Pakistan dance music community, Boiler Room announced their first-ever show in Pakistan. Local dance music fans were swept off their feet when a striking poster popped up on Instagram […]
‘New Black music is this: find the self, then kill it.” The US poet Amiri Baraka wrote these words in the liner notes to the 1965 live album The New Wave in Jazz, and through […]
The singer-songwriter has been married three times, and has a son and four daughters, plus eight grandchildren. — © AFP Charles ONIANS Paul McCartney turns 80 on Saturday and a week later becomes the oldest […]
Ayman Rostom, better known as The Maghreban, will release his second album in July. Rostom, a native of Guildford, England with Egyptian and Saudi heritage, has been working on Connection since 01DEAS, his last album, […]
Late one Thursday in March 1988, Dave Swindells walked into a tiny, sweat-drenched club in central London and found himself present at the birth of a new cultural revolution. The venue, behind Charing Cross station, […]
The most apparent truth about Mike Paradinas’s glitchy, skittering music is that it doesn’t like to sit still. As μ-Ziq, Paradinas established himself in the arena of 90s experimental, abstract and tweaked-out electronica, his sense […]
PRIEST, the synthwave act featuring former members of the Grammy Award-winning Swedish rock act GHOST, will release a new full-length album, “Body Machine”, on July 15 on all formats, including CD, vinyl and digital. The […]
Stripped-back grooves and funk-laden deep house from three special names We’re ready to launch the 38th edition of XLR8R+. For our members, a new month means a package of previously unreleased music, and this time […]
“Neptune Frost” — the mesmerizing Afrofuturist musical brainchild of multihyphenate poet-rapper-writer-musician Saul Williams and his wife, Rwandan artist and cinematographer Anisia Uzeyman — opens with a cacophony of color and sound, both digitized and natural. […]
What a year for hip-hop it has already been. After four years of radio silence from Kendrick Lamar, the Compton poet returned with one of the most vulnerable projects of his career. Another returning veteran […]
Charlotte de Witte is set to make Tomorrowland history in 2022. The Belgium-based festival of nearly two decades will for the first time feature a closing set by a woman on the main stage. Fittingly, organizers […]
Australian label Butter Sessions has released the debut album from Japanese producer Yuzo Iwata. Other than single-track contributions, remixes, and singles as Fabio Lazaro and Almost East since 2015, Iwata has kept a reasonably low […]
Buh Records curates Síntomas de techno (Symptoms of techno): Underground electronic waves from Peru (1985-1991), an ode to the originators of Peruvian electronic music Síntomas de techno cover image via Rogelio Martel Reviewed: June 1, […]
For all the promise of gender equality on lineups, UK music festivals are still dominated by male artists – a BBC study last week found that only 13% of headliners at top festivals this year […]